Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Luxembourg (Ratification: 1964)

Part VII (Family Benefit), Article 44(b) of the Convention. Calculation of benefit. Further to its previous request regarding the level of family benefits, the Committee notes from the Government’s report that the total value of the family benefits provided in 2020 (€489.260.457) amounted for 6,8 per cent of the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer (€58.039,91 in 2020), multiplied by the total number of children of all residents (123 099 children). The Committee takes due note of this information.

Article 68. Suspension of benefit. The Committee takes due note of the Government’s indication that family benefits cease as from the first day of the month following the month in which a child above 18 years of age terminates his or her study.

Part XI (Standards to be complied with by periodical payments). Applying the Convention on the basis of minimum benefits. The Committee takes due note that the Government applies the Convention on the basis of social insurance benefits according to the provisions of Article 65 of the Convention.